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I was struggling along the Carn Mor Dearg Arete on the lee side in the fog and a voice coming from behind me was getting louder, I was mortified when a bloke with a southern counties accent strode passed dictating a letter to his secretary, I'd been enjoying a morning's remoteness up till then

I always thought of you in one of those flint knapped cottages rather than a modern place. I had our brick chimney lined with a cast high temperature concrete one 35 years ago. Its about 9 inches, sound but I don't think it was particularly well executed. I keep it that way rather than have a flexible liner as it means the chimney breast downstairs and upstairs acts as a heat store. I am aware this means the flue gas velocity slows from the stove outlet to the chimney.

Once upon a time not many moons ago building regs didn't allow a chimney for solid fuel to be less than 6" diameter. It was to reduce the chance of blocking by soot and fumes coming back into the dwelling. With cleaner burning stoves this is less of a risk so 5" flues are now allowed.

Just a follow up on this; I was with him today cutting his firewood as his poor sense of balance means he won't use a chainsaw. He says his surgeon thinks there is a slight possibility of a link between nasal/throat cancer and the use of petrol hedge trimmers but the corpus of patients is small so difficult to be sure.

I don't manage to get as much paid work but when I do I find it very tiring, possibly made worse by my last full time work being largely in an office.

Have I missed something, I thought it was going up to 67 by 2028, when I drew my state pension at 65 statistically I could expect to live 18 years. NB I fully expected to continue working till 70 but the boss had other ideas, did me a favour really.

I haven't seen anything relating to inhalation of particulates specific to forestry workers. There is an acknowledged link between inhaling wood or leather dust and nasal/sinus cancer. My felling partner had a tumour removed from the back of his nose, the surgeon says it was likely from 2t fumes but as his dad was a carpenter I'd say the link was more likely wood dust. Two of the 10 or so timber buyers I sold to died of throat cancer. The link is also established with Human Papiloma virus, so don't pick your nose with warty fingers or stick your nose in warty fannies.

You can sharpen them several times on the machine before you need to replace the blades, I use a 4" cordless angle grinder.

Yes, which is why you buy kiln dried or air dry then bring it into the house to stabilise before use, I am not a carpenter or joiner, @Woodworks is.

Yes for that turnover an accountant will only cost around £400 (as long as all the income and outgoings are well collated first)and it's worth that just for the saving in aggravation let alone tax savings they might make.

I'll wait to see what accountants like @Inoff the Red say but you are confusing your gross turnover with profit (aka income) and that £6k is right for a profit of £31k. Your profit was £18k and you have capital allowance on the truck to deduct from that, I'd say the real figure would be nearer £1400 tax Have you paid your National Insurance? Don't miss it.

Yes I have the 7500 for a couple of years now, mostly for my own domestic jobs, from looking at the gearbox I'd say it was the same design as my old Robin engined single sided Barrus one. It seems good though I don't think it cuts as thick stuff as the rough cut Stihls we had at work. Only problem I had was losing the air filter cover when the screw got loose.

Marcus the first time I came across the term it was used for a hot and cold device for creosoting stakes, it was marketed as The Stobster. The broken branch usage seems close to stub.

I can't see this myself, down here it would settle out at 10% at the end of summer or inside the house but unheated it would gain to a bit less than17% wwb. Also I'd want to see a better support than shown, a block under each line of stickers and more weight on the top

For run of the mill stuff local solicitor said their fees would be £250/hour but the initial talk was free. Subsequently she estimated the hours needed to produce a deed would be 1.5 to 2. The final bill was £942+VAT . Each time you ask them something it racks up as does each time they ask you for anything.

I always thought it was a scotish word for stake

Similar to me and I just have, subject to the new bank where I have a personal account allowing me to open a business account and transfer all the money and direct debits. If all goes according to plan I will have free business banking for 30 months which should see out any business transactions from my much reduced working. I was just going to blag it with my personal account except I was surprised to find it is not possible to transfer from a business account so I must gradually transfer any direct debits (credit card transfers, subscriptions etc.) to my personal account over the next couple of years and then close the new business account before fees crack in.

No from what I said above I don't think it wise to burn in a stove because of the effect on the stove but see no problem in burning it on a camp fire at the sea side.

Direct evidence of what?

I have seen websites saying to avoid this as the chlorine from the sea salt can react with the long chain carbohydrates in the wood and form dioxins. I don't believe this as I don't think the temperatures are high enough to split the salt molecule for the chloride ion then to find two partially oxidise benzene rings to recombine with. I can see a route to produce dioxins from inadequate combustion of a chlorinated benzene ring, like PVC or neoprene. I'd like to hear your reason for this? I'd think it unwise to leave the ash from burning driftwood in contact with any metal as the salt will be hygroscopic and salt and moisture acts as catalyst in the oxidation of iron.

If you go to https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/53.32697,-1.98893,18 You can swap between the map and aerial photo and see there is a drain to the overflow from the middle of the dam and the feeder outlet to the canal (the reservoir's main function where one would expect most of the water to leave the dam) the feature between the spill way and this drain is indeterminate. Also note in the aerial photo the water level is above the boat slipway and water is flowing over the weir to the overflow, no other photos I have seen show the reservoir this full but there is no date on the imagery. I just wonder if historically, prior to 1945, there was no spillway and the reservoir was filled more conservatively. Then recently with the demand for leisure boating the decision was made to increase the static level for dry periods and the spillway was added to allow for this. The wikipedia article is interesting and points to the feeder running in by the transhipment building also, I wish I had read this before I tried to deduce it from the maps. Interestingly the first flush of run off from the Toddbrook does not enter the reservoir until the stream is running several inches higher.

I only noticed it then. Incidentally googlearth shows it empty in 1945 (and no sign of water in the canal but it is B&W so hard to tell)and no spillway visible, all the later photos show it at well below capacity with most of the boat slipway showing. Yes they back pump for the Caen Hill flight because there is no water at the top of the flight to make up and I think they had to do this from the beginning with steam pumps. Even with limited pumping the one by me tends to be shut for navigation from June till the Autumn, it was only re opened in 1991 after being closed for 50 years.

I think you mean spillway? The reason is there was ambiguity early on with the word slipway. It was used to refer to a point at the North of the reservoir where there seems to be a boating club and its slipway (I marked it on my sketch as "SLIP"). At this point there is also a weir where water leaves the reservoir and falls into the normal outflow, it seems to fall into the part of the Toddbrook that has skirted the northern edge of the reservoir and then enters the curved outflow channel that runs in front of the dam and on into the Goyt. There are weirs also at the upstream entry to the Toddbook reservoir and halfway to the dam on the northern edge which allow water to divert into this part of the diverted Toddbrook and go directly to the outflow, although trying to interpret the map is not easy.